Carl Petersen (neuroscientist)

Carl Christian Holger Petersen is a Professor of neuroscience at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

Carl Christian Holger Petersen
Born
Copenhagen
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Doctoral advisorMichael Berridge
Websitepeople.epfl.ch/carl.petersen

Professional Biography

Carl Petersen studied physics as a bachelor student in Oxford (1989-1992). During his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Michael Berridge in Cambridge (1992-1996), he investigated cellular and molecular mechanisms of calcium signalling. In his first postdoctoral period (1996-1998), he joined the laboratory of Prof. Roger Nicoll at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to investigate synaptic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus. During a second postdoctoral period, in the laboratory of Prof. Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg (1999-2003), he began working on the primary somatosensory barrel cortex, investigating cortical circuits and sensory processing. Carl Petersen joined the Brain Mind Institute of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003, setting up the Laboratory of Sensory Processing to investigate the functional operation of neural circuits in awake mice during quantified behavior.[1] In 2019, Carl Petersen became the Director of the EPFL Brain Mind Institute, with the goal to promote quantitative multidisciplinary research into neural structure, function, dysfunction, computation and therapy through technological advances.

Personal life

Carl Petersen is the son of Ole Holger Petersen, a professor of physiology at Cardiff University.

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References
  1. Petersen, Carl (2017). "Whole-cell recording of neuronal membrane potential during behavior". Neuron. 95 (6): 1266–1281. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.049. PMID 28910617.


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